Posts Tagged ‘ Process Improvement ’

So the question is, should you invest your time, energy and money making that idea that hit you in the shower this morning come into existence?  Can it really make a difference in your business?  There are two easy approaches to evaluating improvement ideas, the first approach is one that I find works well with [...]

Do you or have you ever had an improvement idea suggestion box for your company?  How is it or how did it work out for you?  Did you ever really get good ideas?  Where you ever able to take any of those good ideas and get them done? The sad thing is that most improvement [...]

1. Eat the worm – Do the thing you don’t want to do first. When you think about the things you have to do today, what tasks are there that you find yourself already drained just thinking about them – Cold calling potential customers; Addressing an employee issue;  Completing that detailed proposal?  We all have [...]

Often times in our businesses it is easier for us to identify when our processes are not working than it is to know how to make them work better. It is not uncommon for people to struggle trying to fix their internal processes. If this sounds like you, checkout the Process Analysis Table below. This [...]

Last week’s show was part one of a three part series on how to use value stream mapping in your company.  The intent of this series is to provide listeners with enough information to get started using this tool to improve their business processes.  Last week we covered three prerequisites that you need to understand [...]